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Planning is Guessing

Transcript of a presentation by David Hansson – co-founder of the successful web based firm called 37signals and the founder of the Ruby on Rails development environment.
 
One of the biggest things (with startups) is probably realizing that planning is guessing. And all of those techniques that you’ve been taught are mostly about planning. Long term planning, strategic planning, tactical planning. All sorts of planning that leads to really, really funny things like start-ups that have five-year growth plans. What? You don’t even have anything yet and you’re theorizing about how it’s going to look in year five? How do you know? You don’t…

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Business Plan – The One Hour Plan

bplanShould you spend precious management time on a business plan or not? This has been the subject of big debates. Good planning can strengthen an organization’s productivity, efficiency and profitability and yet few organizations make the time or effort to do this. Why? Well, there are some fundamental problems organizations face when they start out to make a serious business plan… .

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